A cultural history of chess-players: Minds, machines, and monsters

ISBN-13: 9781784994204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

John Sharples

Opis

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period